Cairo - Palestinian officials holding talks in Egypt on ending divisions among the various Palestinian groups said Tuesday that talks between all Palestinian groups are to resume at the end of next month.
Egypt is to hold separate talks with individual Palestinian factions throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts September 1, Mohamad al-Hindi, a senior official of the Islamic Jihad group, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Cairo - The North African wing of the al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility for two car bombings in Algeria this week that killed 12 people, the al-Jazeera television network reported.
In an audio recording, a spokesman claimed Wednesday's bombings in Bouira, about 100 kilometres south-east of the capital, Algiers, were carried out by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the news network said late Thursday.
The two car bombs detonated in the city centre. In one attack, a suicide bomber drove his car into a military administration office in Bouira. In the second bombing, a suicide attacker drove his car toward a hotel but at the last moment diverted it to smash into a bus before exploding.
Cairo - Investigations have not revealed whether the fire that broke out in the Egyptian Parliament building was due to an electrical spark, Egyptian prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud said Wednesday.
Mahmoud said that investigation will continue and a committee will assess the damage to the 19th century building.
On Tuesday, the building housing Egypt's Shura Council (the upper house of parliament) caught fire, leaving one fireman dead and 13 people injured, according to security sources. The injured suffered smoke inhalation, bruises and bone fractures.
Cairo - Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on Egypt to end abuses against migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa who are often killed, imprisoned or forcibly deported when caught trying to cross the country's borders into Israel.
"Amnesty International has written to Egypt's President Hosny Mubarak this week urging him to end the use of lethal force against African migrants attempting to cross Egypt's the borders into Israel," the human rights organization said a statement.
The statement came a day after Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese man and injured two more Sudanese who attempted to enter Israel illegally via the Rafah border crossing.
Cairo - Palestinian officials holding talks in Egypt on ending divisions among the various Palestinian groups said Tuesday that talks between all Palestinian groups are to resume at the end of next month.
Cairo - Investigations have not revealed whether the fire that broke out in the Egyptian Parliament building was due to an electrical spark, Egyptian prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud said Wednesday.
